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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!batcomputer!not-for-mail From: marty@TC.Cornell.EDU (Marty) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Can't get SLIP to work with NetBSD 0.9 Date: 10 Oct 1993 00:29:54 -0400 Organization: Cornell Theory Center Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <298342$b3v@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: theory.tc.cornell.edu Actually, I've never been able to get it to work with any release. (I tried to install FreeBSD today, but it doesn't seem to install when there is a DOS partition. ) What I do is establish a connection using tip with our terminal server and enter SLIP mode, then drop tip. Then I do the slattach, ifconfig, and route. After configuring the interface and the routing, I try to do some pings, both outgoing and incoming from another host. If I ping another host on the network from my NetBSD machine, ping times out, although I can see the modem send light flash for each packet sent. If I ping my NetBSD machine from another host on the internet, I can see the the modem receive light flash with each ping packet arriving, but the incoming ping also results in 100% data loss. So, needless to say, no network connection is ever established with ftp or telnet. What can I do to get this to work? It seems that most the trouble that people have been having with NetBSD are performance related (silo overflows, etc) Any hints/suggestions will be GREATLY appreciated! Marty